Media Matters is David Brock’s vehicle for beating up the right while posturing as an evenhanded and unbiased fact checker.
[Media Matters] PHIL ROBERTSON: I will give you this -- I commend you for standing for the truth when you're dealing with all these people. What I'm here to do -- I'm glad you called me in, because if I'm able to talk to you, that means desperation is setting in.
So, I just want to remind you what you do every night -- Jesus, in John, Chapter 8, said that the devil is the source -- source, and cause of all murder, and he is also, Jesus said, -- John 8, read that when you get off the phone -- he is the source and the father of lies.
So Sean, what you're doing, maybe even not realized it all together -- You go as to say -- it's just -- how come people -- this is just evil, what Hillary Clinton did, and all the stuff with the -- with the -- with her computers, and all this, and [Christopher] Steele and the dossier -- you gotta remember you're dealing with human beings who are controlled by the father, Sean, of lies. That's why --
SEAN HANNITY (HOST): You really -- see, I believe --
ROBERTSON: That's why it's so hard -- that's why it's so hard to wade through it, because you're thinking, "How could people lie this well?"
They -- they are getting their instructions from the evil one, according to John, Chapter 8, which is a daunting task you have undertaken, because you're really dealing with the power of the evil one, whether it be the shooters in the schools, or the people that you're dealing with that just -- lies just come forth from him.
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So, the Media Matters headline and the relevant parts of the column are two different things, you say? Nope, David Brock's not trying to misrepresent things!
[Daily Caller] Mike Rowe shared his thoughts on the recent tragedy at Stoneman Douglas High School, and it will blow anything the establishment media has to say out of the water.
Rowe wrote on Facebook, "Evil is real. As long as humans have walked the earth, people have chosen to do evil things. This is what happened in Florida. A nineteen-year old man chose to do an evil thing. He planned it. He executed it. He succeeded."
Rowe also said that while it’s important to find out the contributing causes of mass shooters, we shouldn’t absolve the killer of responsibility for his actions.
"Should we endeavor to know why? Absolutely. Should we discuss the impact of video games, accessible firearms, single-parents, no parents, powerful medications, social media, mental illness, bullying, or anything else we think might have encouraged him to choose evil over good? Without question."
BLUF:
[Hot Air] Nearly three-quarters of young Americans are ineligible to serve in the United States military due to obesity, criminal record, or lack of education, according to a new report by the Heritage Foundation.
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Gee, I seem to recall a week or so ago, a public denunciation of those in the military as losers by a Cali pol/educator. If only the upper quarter qualify, what does that make the remaining three quarters?
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"Drank alcohol in High School?", "Yes."
"Smoked pot in the last 7 years?", "Yes."
"Used street drugs, ever?", "Yes."
"Belonged to any Paramilitary Organizations?", "I was in the Boy Scouts."
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When in doubt, consult Stripes quotes: Recruiter: Have you ever been convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor? That's robbery, rape, car theft, that sort of thing. John Winger: Convicted? No. Russell Ziskey: Never convicted.
Recruiter: Now, are either of you homosexuals? John Winger: [John and Russell look at each other] You mean, like, flaming, or... Recruiter: Well, it's a standard question we have to ask. Russell Ziskey: No, we're not homosexual, but we are *willing to learn*. John Winger: Yeah, would they send us someplace special? Recruiter: I guess that's "no" on both. Now if you could just give Uncle Sam your autograph...
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...FWIW, when I was a street recruiter 25 years ago, it might not have been 75% ineligible, but it was doggoned close.
Just as a thought experiment, what would happen if we promised qualified applicants who would sign up for a 10 year hitch full free tuition at the college of their choice and exemption from Federal income taxes for ten years afterwards? I betcha a lot of people would find ways to get into shape right quickly...
Mike
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It's probably for the best, because you really wouldn't want them in anyway...
I remember about 14 years ago, during the late unpleasantness, that my youngest son joined and went to boot at Ft Sill. Dead of winter, and he turns out to be the only boot in his company that's ever built a campfire.
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ED - mine was about a year behind yours - Same place
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he turns out to be the only boot in his company that's ever built a campfire.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Making things easier is one of the lofty ideals of the religion of Islam. It is the basis for all the rituals that are made obligatory for the faithful. Ease is the opposite of hardship as the Holy Qur’an puts it. "Allah intends for you ease and does not intend for you hardship."
The Qur’anic verse related to fasting gives exemption for the sick and those who are traveling from observing fasting on the condition that they have to make it up later. Such concessions are applied to other obligatory rituals as well.
Allah has provided ease with every hardship. The Qur’an says in Surah Inshirah: "For indeed, with hardship (will be) ease." The Prophet (peace be upon him) never had two choices, except that he chose the easier of them. But some people tend to be hardened and narrow in their viewpoints on religious matters, though it has no basis either in the Book of Allah or in the Tradition of the Prophet (Sunnah).
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It's a start, but will it last?
Of should something bigger have to happen to fix it?
[Victory Girls] No, I wasn’t being sarcastic with that title. China ‐ the land that has murdered literally millions of its own citizens since the 1950s, and whose "cultural revolution" alone killed as many as 1.5 million people in rural China ‐ has seen it fit to lecture America on human rights.
Not from the Onion.
China apparently considers itself to be a kinder, gentler regime that has gun control in order to protect human life, which they value oh-so-much!
If the irony was any richer here, it would be Scrooge McDuck diving into a pool of money!
A country that has for decades limited families to only having one child, resulting in the murder of millions of children, and that has "eased" that policy in recent years, graciously allowing families to have two kids (note the sarcasm in that statement), sees it fit to lecture us on human rights.
A country that considers freedom of expression as a "privilege," and not a right, has the temerity to give us "advice"on human rights.
A country that has the death penalty for 46 ‐ FORTY SIX ‐ different crimes, including drug trafficking, public disorder, bribery, endangering national security (which of course involves any criticism of the regime), and robbery (although apparently some reforms now take the death penalty off the table for people 75 years or older, so there’s that); has huge false conviction rates that often involve capital crimes; executed more than 1,600 prisoners in 2016 alone; and until 2014 had trafficked in organs from executed prisoners, has the balls to criticize our human rights record!
In an editorial, titled, "China can offer lessons to US in protecting human rights," China’s state-run birdcage liner wagged a disapproving finger at the United States for "allowing" the citizens the right to keep and bear arms in light of the Parkland massacre, perpetuated by a psychotic murderer, whom the very government that statists and the Chinese (but I repeat myself) want to have a monopoly on force, failed to stop after numerous reports prior to the shooting!
Via Jihad Watch. It's a mystery
The number of alleged rapes reported to police in London has risen by almost 20 per cent in a disturbing increase police are struggling to explain.
There were 7,613 reported rapes in the year to January, compared to 6,392 over the previous 12 months, according to figures collated by the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC).
Sir Craig Mackey, deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said the rise could not be accounted for simply by more victims feeling able to report abuse or better recording practices. "It is not as simple as saying this is increased confidence," he told the London Assembly’s police and come committee.
"Of course that plays a part, and faith in the process, but there is something going on with sexual offending in London that we don’t fully understand.
"We see the end of it but we don’t understand the causes."
Joanne McCartney, the deputy mayor of London, told the meeting on Wednesday that Sir Craig’s statement was "the first time a senior officer has come to this committee and accepted that the increase in sexual violence may not just be about an increase in reporting and confidence".
Susan Hall, a Conservative assembly member, called for police to measure the outcome of plans in place to combat violence against women and girls in the capital.
"Figures are really going in the wrong direction," she added.
Scotland Yard has emphasised that the vast majority of rapes are carried out by attackers known to victims but the statistics emerged following a "stranger rape" in Shoreditch. Sadiq Khan says "Don't you dare mention the elephant in the room, Islamophobe!"
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About better recording practices: are police actually recording — and following up on — the complaints of victims of Muslim grooming gangs now, or do they still know what the daughters of people like that are like, the little sluts? Those rapes were carried out by men known to the victims.
Lots of links within the article worth following up — just click on the headline.
[TheGuardian] Islamist militants – with Turkish army support – are wreaking havoc with a pocket of peace and sanity in the Syrian war.
Three years ago the world watched a ragtag band of men and women fighters in the Syrian town of Kobane, most armed only with Kalashnikovs, hold off a vast army of Islamist militants with tanks, artillery and overwhelming logistical superiority. The defenders insisted they were acting in the name of revolutionary feminist democracy. The Islamist fighters vowed to exterminate them for that very reason. When Kobane’s defenders won, it was widely hailed as the closest one can come, in the contemporary world, to a clear confrontation of good against evil.
Today, exactly same thing is happening again. Except this time, world powers are firmly on the side of the aggressors. In a bizarre twist, those aggressors seem to have convinced key world leaders and public opinion-makers that Kobane’s citizens are “terrorists” because they embrace a radical version of ecology, democracy and women’s rights.
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[PJ] Recently, Contently, a marketing firm, put out an article by Tallie Gabriel ("Your Brand Needs a Conscience") that urged companies to take up hot-button political issues in order to be successful. This seems like incredibly stupid advice after what happened to the NFL this season, where the league did just that. Gabriel wrote:
There will always be risk associated with any move that can be construed as political.
But as Contently’s director of strategy Joe Lazauskas wrote after the 2016 presidential election, the benefits outweigh the potential downside: Even if publicizing your beliefs may ostracize some potential customers, it also builds deep loyalty for those who share your values‐particularly values like celebrating equality and inclusion, which many people support, regardless of political affiliation. The same goes for expressing concern and support for the diverse people who work for you. Loyalty isn’t just a marketing metric; it’s also critical for measuring the internal health of your company.
I need another politicized company trying to sell me things like I need a longer flu season. Shut up already and sell me whatever thing it is you have to offer. If I want something you make, just sell it to me without the moralizing, please. It appears we can also blame this on millennials (what can't we blame on them?):
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Peter Drucker said that an organization can succeed at one mission. As soon as it has two missions it will fail at both. So, when a business takes up virtue signalling, they are actually warning the consumer that the product or service they are selling is going to decrease in quality.
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When Tom Brokaw took over the nightly news seat at NBC, the show was in third place among the three major open broadcast evening news. When he left, it was in first place. However, the audience was smaller than when he first took the position. Their appeal just became more selective.
[LongWarJournal] On January 19, the Pentagon released its new National Defense Strategy. The second paragraph of the 14-page declassified summary painted a dire picture. “Today, we are emerging from a period of strategic atrophy, aware that our competitive military advantage has been eroding,” the Defense Department warned. “We are facing increased global disorder, characterized by decline in the long-standing rules-based international order—creating a security environment more complex and volatile than any we have experienced in recent memory. Inter-state strategic competition, not terrorism, is now the primary concern in U.S. national security.”
That last line garnered widespread attention. It signaled that defense planners no longer want the jihadist wars unleashed by the 9/11 attacks to be their primary focus. The rest of the overview explained why. China is now a “strategic competitor,” while Russia seeks to “shatter the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and change European and Middle East security and economic structures to its favor.” Both China and Russia “want to shape a world consistent with their authoritarian model—gaining veto authority over other nations’ economic, diplomatic, and security decisions.” Meanwhile, rogue states such as North Korea and Iran increasingly pose threats to American interests. While the Defense Department recognizes that ISIS and other “terrorist groups” will continue “to murder the innocent and threaten peace more broadly,” Washington must shift its focus to “long-term strategic competition.”
In many ways, the Pentagon’s planning document makes sense. China and Russia command resources that far outstrip the jihadists’ capabilities. They have nuclear-tipped missiles; the jihadists do not. The gap between their conventional military prowess and America’s has closed somewhat. Russia and China also use other means, ranging from economic pressure to cyberattacks to espionage and disinformation, to challenge American supremacy. Meanwhile, the 9/11 wars have been costly. But as threatening as they’ve been, the jihadists lack the industrial capacity and military might to be a top-tier competitor. It is only natural, given these facts, that the Defense Department seeks a rebalancing.
It will not be so easy, though, to pivot away from the jihadists. ISIS and al Qaeda have tied up security services throughout the West for years. Thousands of terror suspects across Europe require monitoring. The FBI has been swamped by hundreds of U.S. cases involving potential terrorists. The CIA and allied intelligence agencies continue to hunt down professional terrorists who plot mass destruction in the West. ISIS and al Qaeda operatives still threaten aviation with smartly concealed bombs. And while ISIS has lost its territorial caliphate, the fight is far from over.
This past week, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) presented its annual worldwide threat assessment to the Senate. It contains numerous warnings that the Defense Department pivot may be premature: “Over the next year, we expect that ISIS is likely to focus on regrouping in Iraq and Syria, enhancing its global presence, championing its cause, planning international attacks, and encouraging its members and sympathizers to attack in their home countries.” ISIS, the ODNI assessment warns, “has started—and probably will maintain—a robust insurgency in Iraq and Syria as part of a long-term strategy to ultimately enable the reemergence of its so-called caliphate,” and it will continue to “threaten U.S. interests in the region.”
The bottom line: ISIS is far from finished. While most of the territory once under its rule in Iraq and Syria has been “liberated,” the group still retains the resources to wage guerrilla warfare indefinitely.
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Depriving them of theater is one thing. Depriving them of resources is something quite different.
[Townhall] Is American foreign policy so foreign to our values that those who have served at the very pinnacle of the national intelligence agencies have trouble telling the truth?
"Have we ever tried to meddle in other countries’ elections?" Laura Ingraham, host of Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle, asked James Woolsey, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1993 to 1995, during President Clinton’s first term.
"Oh, probably," Mr. Woolsey replied. "But, uh, it was for the good of the system, in order to avoid communists from taking over. For example, in Europe in ’47-’48-’49, the Greeks and the Italians, we, the CIA‐"
"We don’t do that now, though?" Ingraham interjected. "We don’t mess around in other people’s elections, Jim?"
"Well . . . urrrrr, yum, yum, yum, um, um, um" the old spymaster mouthed to laughter from both Ingraham and her studio cameramen. A few classic examples follow:
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and against Bibi
One does wonder who is concocting the successive rounds of accusations requiring police investigations of the prime minister, his wife, and all their friends, so much like the Russia file used against President Trump, et al. Caroline Glick has strong opinions about the game being played there, though makes no mention of who has been behind it for over two decades.
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I wonder if the Klingons at the Israeli desk are still operating under orders from that loathsome administration? Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom
Unless they've been moved on to administrative duties in Karachi, one must assume nothing has much changed. Of course there is always that limb you could step out on.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[IRIN]
On January 19, the Pentagon released its new National Defense Strategy. The second paragraph of the 14-page declassified summary painted a dire picture. “Today, we are emerging from a period of strategic atrophy, aware that our competitive military advantage has been eroding,” the Defense Department warned. “We are facing increased global disorder, characterized by decline in the long-standing rules-based international order—creating a security environment more complex and volatile than any we have experienced in recent memory. Inter-state strategic competition, not terrorism, is now the primary concern in U.S. national security.”
